JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation
September 14, 2018
Coagulation Test Interpretation in a Patient Taking Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
Michelle Sholzberg, Yan Xu
JAMA. 2018;320(14):1485-1486. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.13998
Case 病例
A 74-year-old man presented with spontaneous, acute onset of confusion and headache. He had no preceding head trauma or falls. He had a history of atrial fibrillation with an annual stroke risk of 2.9% (based on points accrued for ...

JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation
September 14, 2018
Coagulation Test Interpretation in a Patient Taking Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
Michelle Sholzberg, Yan Xu
JAMA. 2018;320(14):1485-1486. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.13998
Case 病例
A 74-year-old man presented with spontaneous, acute onset of confusion and headache. He had no preceding head trauma or falls. He had a history of atrial fibrillation with an annual stroke risk of 2.9% (based on points accrued for ...

JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods
August 23, 2018
Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association
Telba Z. Irony
JAMA. Published online August 23, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.12115
Associations between patient characteristics or treatments received and clinical outcomes are often first described using observational data, such as data arising through usual clinical care without the experimental assignment of treatments that occurs in a randomi...

CLINICAL DECISIONS
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Michael Y. Mi, Michael A. Matthay, and Alan H. Morris
N Engl J Med 2018; 379:884-887
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMclde1804601
Case Vignette: A Man With Severe ARDS
Mr. Jackson is a 36-year-old man whom you are caring for in the intensive care unit (ICU). Before this hospitalization, he was healthy and took no medications. He has never smoked, and he drinks three or four beers every ...

Re-expansion pulmonary oedema
Alice Petiot, Sammy Tawk, Benoît Ghaye
Lancet 2018; 392: 507
A 46-year-old man presented to the emergency department with moderate dyspnoea and a 4-day history of cough. His medical history also included alcoholic cirrhosis with portal hypertension and ascites. On admission, a chest x-ray showed complete white-out of the right hemithorax with contralateral mediastinal deviation compatible with a large pleural effusion—presumed to be hepatic hy...